All alternative synonyms
al·ter·na·tive
A a adj alternative
- other — additional or further: he and one other person.
- different — not alike in character or quality; distinct in nature; dissimilar: The two brothers are very different, although they are identical twins.
- second — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- substitute — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- surrogate — a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
- another — Another thing or person means an additional thing or person of the same type as one that already exists.
noun alternative
- replacement — the act of replacing.
- substitution — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- change — If there is a change in something, it becomes different.
- opportunity — an appropriate or favorable time or occasion: Their meeting afforded an opportunity to exchange views.
- option — command line option
- druthers — one's own way, choice, or preference: If I had my druthers, I'd dance all night.
- pick — to cast (a shuttle).
- preference — the act of preferring.
- recourse — access or resort to a person or thing for help or protection: to have recourse to the courts for justice.
- redundancy — the state of being redundant.
- selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
- sub — a submarine.
- other fish to fry — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
- take it or leave it — If you say to someone 'take it or leave it', you are telling them that they can accept something or not accept it, but that you are not prepared to discuss any other alternatives.
- choice — If there is a choice of things, there are several of them and you can choose the one you want.
- discretion — the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice: It is entirely within my discretion whether I will go or stay.
adjective alternative
- alternate — When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
- unusual — not usual, common, or ordinary; uncommon in amount or degree; exceptional: an unusual sound; an unusual hobby; an unusual response.
- unconventional — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
- out of the ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- marginal — pertaining to a margin.
- unorthodox — not conforming to rules, traditions, or modes of conduct, as of a doctrine, religion, or philosophy; not orthodox: an unorthodox ideology.
- complementary — Complementary things are different from each other but make a good combination.
conjunction alternative
- oppositely — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- or — a Boolean operator that returns a positive result when either or both operands are positive.
preposition alternative
adverb alternative
- instead — as a substitute or replacement; in the place or stead of someone or something: We ordered tea but were served coffee instead.
- in lieu — place; stead.
- on second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
- alternately — in an alternating sequence or position
- in place of — instead of, replacing